Big Bang Special Edition

YG Entertainment (YGE) will be launching a cosmetic line of medium and high priced cosmetics targeting the Chinese market.

According to the Financial Supervisory Service on August 7, YGE confirmed its KRW 50 billion परिवर्तनीय bond investment plan in a cosmetics manufacturing and sales company Coson. On the same day, the stock-price fluctuation of Coson jumped when the trade opened.

Coson, since bought out द्वारा a cosmetic brand Mizon’s CEO Lee Dong-gun last October, tried to transform itself into a cosmetic company. CEO Lee was a researcher at Amore Pacific in the past.

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Fly like a G-Dragon

Big Bang leader and K-pop stylemeister G-Dragon came, smoldered and pulled off not one, but two feats beyond any K-popster's wildest dreams.

1. He's the first K-pop boybander to hold a solo संगीत कार्यक्रम here.

We're referring to full-fledged concerts, not small-scale प्रशंसक meets, mind you. Even without his Big Bang mates, G-Dragon managed to pack the Indoor Stadium with 14,000 adoring प्रशंसकों over 2 nights. As far as flying solo goes, pretty boy Kim Hyun Joong comes in a distant सेकंड place with his प्रशंसक meet last year. Even then, KHJ has to high-five every one of his 3,000 प्रशंसकों present....